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I wondered this myself, finding that quite often the scratch trades would've turned out very profitable had I let the initial stop. Sometimes I quickly re-enter a scratch trade though.

This will resolve my occasional order entry error of left-clicking instead of right-clicking to put in a stop and ending up immediately exiting the trade. Between this nifty feature and my "Warn on exit" (if I'm holding an open position) I should never again have order errors! Although...

Found out how to automatically initiate a bracketed order when putting on a position via IB's booktrader. This also works in my sim account, allowing me to finally test some breakout strategies properly. You just hold down the Alt key when placing the order and an automatic STP and LMT...

Watched ES after the ISM and thought it was odd that it climbed on a lower than expected number. I guess the ADP report carried the morning. I was looking to short an upper channel line overshoot when price moved to test the HOD (which was the first overshoot, but I didn’t want to pick a top...

No live trades today. Sim traded CL, ES and NQ. Did well in sim through the FOMC but it felt like gambling.

Yes, this is similar to how I've been trading CL in my sim account. I "see" it without drawing the lines, but the pushes down and breakouts have been indicating reversals to me.

Wow! The higher they fly, the harder they fall. Just came back to my office and saw STEC in the 15's! Not long ago as STEC was falling (in the mid 20's), I told the guys in R's trading room I had a buy order @ 12.84 and thought from the looks of the price action it might get there soon...

R, I felt the same way and decided to hone my skills in my sim account rather allowing my "noobness" to place my precious capital at risk.

Good lord, after reading that, it's back to trading for me! :eek:

RN: I have a trading account with Etrade that I'm not using. I felt a need to invest. Or, in this case, to divest. :D However, I just returned to my desk to see that news came across the wire late today that explains the inexplicable rise today of this (IMHO) zombie stock: Great...

GAP gapped down strongly on 10/20 after reporting another loss as well as the fact their CEO resigned. The stock has a significant short interest (20%) and I decided to watch it each day to see how far price would go in filling the gap. It showed surprising strength to the upside ever...

LMAO! Mystery solved! I run my sim account on a separate PC with 2 monitors, so I have to layer DOMs and charts over one another. I use the horizontal trendline to hover at areas an check the price, so that button's active on my intraday charts. I never click on it though when actively...

My plan was no trades until after the news, but after the news the market was really choppy, so I decided to work in the sim account, honing my skills. CL was a choppy mess after the open and after working way too hard to net $93, I switched to with ES, utilizing a strategy that Hog reminded...

The market was very choppy after the news, so no live trades. Worked ES in sim account with a channel line strategy that has so far worked very well on range days and trending range days. Probably would kill me on a serious trend day :eek:

star, I hadn't the balls to do an overnight trade in my live account, but I hurled 50 sim cars with you last night and woke up to +$32K, out @ 1028.75. :D

No, they are not any kind of selected study and they are not manipulatible.

OK here are the mystery lines.

Yes, I believe it's sign! These lines are only on the 5-min CL chart and the ES daily chart and only in my sim account. Hmmm...maybe that's why I'm making tens of thousands of dollars a day in the sim account.... If I have time end of day I'll post a chart.

"scanners" "dilithium" "futures" "anomaly" Petsamo! Stay within in the analogical boundaries of this thread! I mean, come on, have you EVER EVER seen ANYONE on ANY Star Trek series EVER wear seatbelts???